Summary

Sheryl invites Ari to come to the city for a day out even though Ari would rather do any number of things instead. She and Sheryl get their nails done and later Ari meets with Marianne and they talk about feminist writers. Ari is impatient and just wants to get home to nurse Walker.

Ari gets a new co-worker at the co-op, a woman who has just returned from visiting her daughter and new grandchild in Oregon. Ari is envious of the time that the daughter had with her mother.

Ari tells about how her grandmother survived the Auschwitz concentration camp by becoming a whore for the Nazi soldiers. Her grandmother was given food, a cot, heat and some clothes in return. Her grandmother's friend was also saved from death because she was a seamstress for Nazi wives and children. Ari's grandmother...